.....Just a few years ago the United States was genuinely feared on the world stage, and dictatorial regimes, strategic adversaries and state sponsors of terror treaded carefully in the face of the worlds most powerful nation. Now Washington appears weak, rudderless and frequently confused in its approach. From Tehran to Tripoli, the Obama administration has been pathetically slow to lead, and afraid to condemn acts of state-sponsored repression and violence. When protesters took to the streets to demonstrate against the Islamist dictatorship in Iran in 2009, the brutal repression that greeted them was hardly a blip on Barack Obamas teleprompter screen,...

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It has also become abundantly clear that the Obama team attaches little importance to human rights issues, and in contrast to the previous administration has not pursued a freedom agenda in the Middle East and elsewhere. It places far greater value upon engagement with hostile regimes, even if they are carrying out gross human rights abuses, in the mistaken belief that appeasement enhances security. This has been the case with Iran, Russia and North Korea for example. This administration has also been all too willing to sacrifice US leadership in deference to supranational institutions such as the United Nations, whose track record in standing up to dictatorships has been virtually non-existent.

The White Houses painful navel-gazing on Libya last week, with even the French adopting a far tougher stance, is cause for grave concern. The Obama administrations timid approach to foreign policy is the last thing the world needs at a time of mounting turmoil in the Middle East, including the growing threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, and Islamist militancy on the rise from Egypt to Yemen. US leadership is now needed more than ever, but has embarrassingly gone AWOL on the world stage.

There is an old saying that there is no such thing as a dangerous weapon, only dangerous men. Well it turns out that the opposite is also true. If the man at the controls isn't dangerous it doesn't matter the military power that backs him up. Obama is only dangerous to the American people. Foreign tyrants have nothing to fear from him.

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posted on 02/28/2011 11:22:22 AM PST
by GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)

The Republicans who ran in 2008 did not do a good enough job of informing the public about the cost of Obama’s complete lack of accomplishment, and the NEED for us to be respected and, let’s be blunt, feared by the world.

We can put all the blame for Obama’s failure and worthlessness on Obama, but the Republicans simply didn’t figure out a way to run against Obama without being seen as ‘divisive’ or ‘racist’.

I fear they’ll have no idea how to do it in 2012, either, except this time the media will be even more rabid—as will a desperate Obama—to throw down the race card at a moment’s notice.

His handling of the Somali pirates holding the captain of a US ship, Maersk Alabama in April 2009, was the first indication of his incompetence. A handful of young Somali thugs held the US Navy at bay while Obama dithered. It was only the naval officers taking of the initiative on scene that prevented that from becoming another murder. Trying the captured pirate in US Courts was a waste of time and despite the lone pirate getting a 34 year sentence has done nothing to deter the pirates from seizing other US ships and murdering their crew.

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posted on 02/28/2011 11:34:28 AM PST
by The Great RJ
(The Bill of Rights: Another bill members of Congress haven't read.)

One guy, Rove ,made a prediction last Nov. He said, believe it or not, foreign policy could also be a huge reason voters fear putting the faux CIC-CEO back in office. As the weeks, months roll on by, that predictions looks pretty good. He may be the weakest foreign policy Prez we have had since....Carter. He was not respected either. What is bothersome is Obama is so alien to our own values and security interests. Yet, the libs will still vote for him and we know so many, too many, minority lemmings will without even realizing how horrid his security policies or lack thereof, are for all Americans. Even dumbed down liberals.

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